Steve Morgan last night told a packed Telford International Centre that Kenny Jackett will get the board’s full-backing to mount a promotion push in the ‘toughest League in European and possibly world football’.

The Chairman and club owner came out fighting with a rousing speech at the club’s awards night where Kevin McDonald sailed off with the Fans and Players’ Player trophies.

Aside from one slight Freudian slip where he referred to Wolves wearing ‘red and gold’, the Liverpudlian was greeted with loud cheers on what was a momentous night attended by all of the players - barring Jamie O’Hara-, the staff and 700 fans.

Morgan was asked by Sky’s Jim White if he would back Jackett next season to ‘keep this great progression going’ and he replied: “I said this time last year in a written statement that we have to go into League One with humility and treat every game like a Cup Final and be respectful of every single team we play - and I think we’ve done that and the results prove it.

“I will say exactly the same for next year. The Championship is arguably the toughest League in Europe, possible the world, in the sense that anybody can beat anybody on any one occasion.

“I make no excuses for last year but had we got the points this year (the 51 earned in last season’s relegation) we would have finished about 16th or 17th in the League (this year). We were just unlucky in the sense that we got relegated with a record number of points.

“But no excuses. Things happen for a reason. I think good comes out of bad. What we have done this year and what we’ve achieved this year is not just good it has been phenomenal, it has been fantastic for the club. 103 points is the all-time record that has ever happened in the history of football (in the third tier)... not just Wolves.

“That is a measure of the achievement of what the club and the team have done this year. And next year we go up and we have to pay the same respect.

“And one thing I love about Ken (Jackett) is that he already knows what he wants for next year. I’ve never experienced that in my time at the club where a manager, even before the season has finished, knows exactly what he wants for next year. And he will be supported 100 per cent to achieve what he wants.

“It has been a hugely successful season but it is a tough league. There are some very, very tough games ahead of us but that’s what we do: get up and go at it.”

Morgan admitted last season’s relegation had been difficult for all at the club.

“But when things get tough, you know that the tough get going and I think at the end of last season we did a lot of self examination.

“We sat down with Kevin Thelwell and myself, supported by the board and management teams and decided we needed to go in a different way.

“That resulted in the appointment of Ken. Ken, quite rightly, wanted to start afresh and wanted to purge the past, if you like.

“And we totally supported that. We got right behind what they wanted to do.

“They were brave. They brought in young players from the Academy, they brought in new players to the club, all of whom have been a fantastic success.

“The rest is history. It was a record season. What a season! And it is about team-work.

“The team-work goes right throughout the club from the team management, the backroom staff and players. The players have been fantastic this season, both the new players that Ken has brought in.

“The likes of Richard Stearman and Dave Edwards who has played like a striker at the end of the season.

“But I just have to pick out just one or two more: ‘captain marvel’ Sam (Ricketts) has brought the old head to what is a very young team. His leadership on the pitch has been phenomenal.

“Another old head but on young shoulders- and he’s been an ever-present right throughout in the centre of our defence - is Danny Batth who has been phenomenal.

“The rest of the lads? Bloody hell... what a team.

“It wouldn’t be such a record-breaking team if it wasn’t such a great team effort. From me, the board, every single Wolves fan... we are really proud of the team and the management. You have done a great job this season.”

On a night where Jack Price pipped Lee Evans and Ethan Ebanks-Landell to the young player of the season award, Morgan hailed the impact of the Academy as ‘phenomenal’.

“Again, fair play to Ken,” he said. “Because to use the Academy.., previous management has been reluctant to pick some of the younger players.

“If you knew some of the arguments I have had behind the scenes with previous managers who wouldn’t give the youngsters a chance.

“Now we have got a man who firmly believes ‘if they are good enough, they are old enough’.”

Morgan then paid tribute to the home and away supporters, again labelling their impact as ‘phenomenal’.

“It started at Preston in taking 5,000 fans to that first game of the season in League One. Who takes 5,000 fans to an away game?

“I think I am right in saying that almost every ground we have been to this season we have had the record attendance of the year for that club.

“What seemed like a Cup Final: then ‘10ktoMK’.. I remember turning up at MK Dons thinking ‘bloody hell’. I thought we had gone to Wembley on Cup Final day.

“There were Wolves fans for miles around. All you could see was the red (sic) and gold... the black and gold.

“When the team came out, and I’ve got it on my phone, and a video of the pre-match singing, literally you almost wanted the Queen to come out and present something. It was just great.

“I thought it was heading to a 0-0 draw until that great headed goal from Macca (Liam McAlinden) a few minutes before the end.

“It was a great goal and a great end for those 9,000... well, there were 9,000 officially but everywhere you looked in the rest of the ground there were also Wolves shirts. It was just great... fantastic.”